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Kenya will crack down on Gates’s filthy shack schools
KENYA has vowed to crack down on the chain of shack schools bankrolled by the world’s richest man after a damning report by teaching unions.
The Kenyan National Union of Teachers (KNUT) launched the report by global federation Education International (EI) into the transnational Bridge International Academies (BIA) in Nairobi on Monday.
BIA has high-profile backers such as Microsoft boss Bill Gates, along with venture capitalists and the British and US governments.
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